Is There A Worldwide Consciousness? | Answers With Joe

A worldwide experiment is taking place that may be providing evidence that on some level, consciousness interacts with the physical world. All about the Global Consciousness Project.
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Over 30 years, the PEAR lab at Princeton University and the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) have been testing the theory that human consciousness can have an effect on real-world random and chaotic systems. Their findings seem to indicate that the effects are small, but measurable, when they monitor random number generators and look for higher than expected patterns in the randomness.
This lead to the creation of the Global Consciousness Project, who have placed "EGGs" in cities around the world to monitor pattern variances in random number generators and find correlations with world events.
Links to more information:
The Global Consciousness Project website:
global-mind.org/
Vice Article:
www.vice.com/en_ca/read/this-i...
The PEAR Lab at Princeton
www.princeton.edu/~pear/
Pear video
vimeo.com/4359545
Through the Wormhole segment
• Global Consciousness P...
News report
• Global Consciousness P...
Dean Radin (Head of IONS)
• Dean Radin: The Global...

[@amandajones661]

I'm super interested in this because throughout history there have always been people who said they can feel when things are going to happen. They feel the emotions in the air.

[@boxfox2945]

Yelp

[@blindsqurill]

I can feel it coming in the air tonight…..

[@samwirick-velez3477]

Would be interesting to see how this correlates with the current pandemic.

[@FollowBetulas]

The dot hit 100% and basically crashed a few days ago when Trump gave his speech regarding the protests

[@DAng-ze6lj]

I'll be comment #667. Thanks

[@outkast334]

@@FollowBetulas did you find this info on the global mind website? I'm about to get sucked down a rabbit hole I know it. Thanks

[@outkast334]

Where can we find that info?

[@FollowBetulas]

@@outkast334 I had the site up when the event was occuring, if you email them they may be able to pass on the data to you

[@JohnFKennedy420]

I relate to this. I swear every time i would go to a restaurant or fast food with my parents, a huge line would form behind us right after we get there. It happened almost every time. I figured it was just the time of day we went, but after a while I found it didn’t matter, we used to joke that everyone came because they heard our family was there😂

[@gyorgischwartz]

You get in line at a drive thru and it fills up within 20 seconds. You park to eat and watch the line diminish.

[@tomo1168]

I'm that guy who is always the last one behind you, wits the longest time and the line is already very short when I'm ready.

[@NyxGamingAU]

I have a disability that involves severe pain in the mornings, thanks Joe, for making my mornings interesting and scientifically informative. I binge watch your videos every morning. Keep up the great work!

[@shannond1511]

That's awful. I'm going thru something similar and I know how tough it can be. I also love things like this to get my mind on some other things.

[@BiggerFatterBlog]

God is evil and about all we can do is call God out for his evil and if there ever comes away to destroy God this is what we must do.

[@InnSewerAnts]

I'm mostly a rational, scientifically educated person but distinctly remember 9/11 (I live in the Netherlands, Europe). I was sitting on a terrace with a friend talking and all of a sudden there was.. Something. Sitting on a terrace in a shopping street there were no tv's or anything. But something was just different, more people were looking confused. We then paid and left and when I got home my mother was watching the burning building and a bit later the 2nd plane flew into the other one while we were watching live. I'm by no means saying this has some, currently thought of as metaphysical explanation. But somehow a sliver of that information managed to find us just randomly outside. We knew there was something big and not good just not what until we got home. I can come up with many rational ways this might have happened. Someone saw it, unconscious body language and stuff spread the "feeling" of "something's off" perhaps, but somehow that kinda sounds somewhat far reaching as well.

[@ryckjunior9911]

I remember here in South Africa switching on the t.v right after school to a news channel, which I never did before. I switched it on just after the first plane hit the north tower.

[@AngeloXification]

@@ryckjunior9911 Hey me too! I went to school the next day and nobody was talking about it.

[@AngeloXification]

I imagine that's what a "disturbance in the force" feels like.

[@tantraman93]

Back in the 90's I was working at a public library circulation desk. Over time we, the desk workers, noticed something really weird. We could be discussing some completely random and very obscure topic and a book about that topic would be returned would be returned within minutes. This happened many many times.

[@RareSalmon93]

Stop making me question my entire existence with every video damn it!

[@nanoflower1]

In the past it would have been very difficult to study such a thing. With modern technology it has become much easier to study. Though I wonder what if such a thing as a global consciousness is found to exist? What would that mean for each of us? Would we change our lives in any meaningful way? I'm not sure we would.

[@e8root]

what existence?

[@CrazyFunnyCats]

RareSalmon morph into an amoeba 🦠, relax...

[@hagancs]

We are one: Woo alarm!

[@theconsciousmovement9669]

@NikTheFix yes. It is.

[@youreworthyourweightinavoc7189]

Funny that you should talk about your grocery store experience because when I was younger I often would walk into an empty shop and then 'randomly' more and more people would also start coming in. I want more woo-woo vids!

[@Nitephall]

This will sound stupid, but I've noticed from years of studious observation that Thursday is "poop day." The stalls in work restrooms are fuller on Thurs. than on any other day of the week. Why do I notice this? Because I have a shy bladder, and I use the stalls for #1 as well as #2. Not only are our minds connected on a subconscious level, our butts are as well.

[@CrazyFunnyCats]

Nitephall work on your bladders self esteem...a “shy”bladder means more visits 😹😂🙈🐒💨kapowwwww!

[@bigpianoguy]

A noticeable number of people on Thursday; the other day is Sunday, a phenomena you cannot study. 'Butt', here it is - it's a matter of preparation. A majority of people go twice a week. At home on Sunday, a slow day with people in & out of the house (airflow) so you can relax at home. And this way you're 'ready' for the beginning of the week. Thursday, away from home ('man, am I glad I didn't let THAT off in the house..') and after, all ready for the weekend...

[@demoniack81]

@@bigpianoguy " A majority of people go twice a week. " ...what? No they don't, that' unhealthy as shit (pun intended). You're supposed to poop every single day, maybe even twice in a day if you've eaten a lot.

[@smellthel]

I completely believe that we all share a consciousness and don’t know it

[@deanharris1657]

Hey Joe. I'm an American active duty service member stationed overseas in Spain, and I love that you keep us updated on modern advances in science and psychology. Awesome work man. Keep it up.

[@lissam8988]

Strange thing that would happen to my mom and I, when I was a teenager and into my early twenties. We would go out to eat not at lunch time or a normal eating time, it could be any random time. The place had no other diners or just a couple. And within 10 minutes of us arriving and ordering, there would be large amounts of people coming to eat. Sometimes bewildering the wait staff or other employees 🤷‍♀️. They would say where are all these people coming from and why. 🙇‍♀️🤷‍♀️ After a while my mom and I would joke about it. 🤪😂 We would go to a restaurant nobody there, then before 10 minutes elapsed in time there would be another five or 7 other people coming in to get something to eat. 🤔🤷‍♀️ The staff acted like they weren't ready for it🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️. So then we started asking the staff do you normally get busy around this time, they would tell us no. Then I did an experiment knowing that this happens to us, I decided to acknowledge it out loud right before we went into the restaurant. The restaurant stayed empty most of the time we were there no one else showed up.🤔

[@matthewbartlett9222]

Have there been cases of deviation from random chance when no major or traumatic events occurred? Or have there been events that resulted in no noticeable reaction? What determines if an event is significant enough to then cross reference with the numbers from the Global Consciousness Project?

[@moonie6083]

Matthew Bartlett Thank you for critical thinking

[@zacharyshannon8460]

It's funny the way that a random number generator's deviation from random doesn't line up with the supposed cause.. Rather than see that for what it is, a time traveling psychic awareness is proposed. Doesn't Occam have a razor for this?

[@Timothay2]

excellent question, my guess is the answer is yes.

[@Timothay2]

@@kidmosey They are stating that around the time of these events randomness shifts to where one outcome becomes much more dominant.

[@bigpianoguy]

What happens when Global AI discovers Global Consciousness? How long will we have, exactly, in microseconds?

[@Mridul.scentman]

the amount of knowledge I have gained from this channel is immense. Seriously This video deserves more views and you channel deserves atleast 10 million subs.Thanks a lot Joe

[@Jeff_Auger]

If you pay attention to people talking at parties or bars, they talk at the same time and stop together. Pulses in conversation... Might be linked to this idea.

[@AmiratheAlligator]

Jeff Auger You heard of herd mentality?

[@j3licat]

I have absolutely noticed this. I must be out of sync with all of humanity. I'm the one that is saying something awkward when everyone goes quiet.

[@Rkenton48]

They also breathe in the same pattern, eyes dart the exact same way, and the volume and rhythm of their discussions is in sync.

[@RawbLV]

There have been many stories of people feeling "off" before the towers got hit, like getting bad dreams and just feeling uneasy hours or day before...

[@TheBrianagh]

Wow I never knew about that

[@AhmetwithaT]

If bad things happened every time people felt off, the world would be never ending The Day After Tomorrow style disaster movie.

[@metaRising]

I have a couple of different videos about the GCP and the science behind it, in case peeps are interested... Thanks for making this awesome video, Joe! Adam is a good friend of mine!

[@knowa24]

Mr Scott, you are an inspiration. In my mid life introspection I realized I wanted to make science videos. Took me a while to get to your page through Nova, PBS KZbin, and NdGT Brian Cox videos, but now that I have...consider me impressed. I’m only halfway through your discography, and me and my two boys (9&11) have made your videos a part of our morning commute to school. You will be in my first lot of patreon support.

[@BrendanTietz]

Dude you deserve so many more fucking subs. I'm new to the channel and I LOVE IT!! Please don't stop.

[@iwillroam]

On the morning of 9/11 I was sitting down at my desk at work, and digging in to a big stack of files. But I felt like I should turn on the radio and listen to the news, though I tended to never do that as it slows down my work day if I'm not focused in the mornings. Literally that's the only time in my life I felt like that, though, as I never felt that kind of urgent, pulling thought before, and I haven't felt it since. So, that's hard to describe as I only felt it once. So fwiw, maybe it is possible that enough people thinking of the same thing, with the same emotional feeling (fear/worry/concern, whatever chemicals our bodies make that help us focus when we're frightened, and also help those around us pick up on whatever we're reacting to, and likewise take their own action), like the word "news", that some of us can feel that. I don't know... it's a lot to think about, but there's all kinds of things we don't understand about consciousness!

[@PantsuMann]

Awesome episode. I was 11 when the planes struck the buildings. I live in Sweden and that day I just got home and turned on the TV. I do not usually do that, I most of the times just head up to my room. I do not usually speculate over things like this, but it sure is weird.

[@BOT-dv9lz]

I remember coming home from work with a pizza. Eating pizza an looking on tv i was thinking that that the movie had very good special effects. And slowly i realized that it was real. And thats where my jaw droppet to the floor.

[@thenuskot]

That was bloomin brilliant. I had chills there at the end....thanks Joe.

[@solio9471]

Joe, I love this topic, i wish your videos were longer, i know your very busy and trust me your work is incredibly appreciated, even if once a month we got maybe a 20 - 40 minute feature video going into depth on one of the subjects discussed that month because i could have sat and watched this video for hours even lol

[@Bensen669]

"the majority usually asks for short videos?" Were you asking a question? that question mark seems very out of place.

[@TheAlstrang]

Great video! I too, have spent a lot of time thinking about this topic. If we aren't connected consciously, we certainly are creating a global consciousness in the internet. I used to roll dice a lot when i was younger and always had a number in my head that i wanted to appear and more often then not when i was focused on the roll i would get the desired result. Of course i was young and knew without a doubt i was making it happen.

[@casario2808]

When a guy like me (always a critical thinker, career scientist, generally a skeptic on "paranormal" things) one morning wakes up in fright and sweating after a vivid dream about planes flying into high-rise buildings - so vivid that I wrote it down into a journal and even discussed my bizarre dream with my cat (TMI maybe but)...and it is exactly 4:30 AM EST on 9/11/01 - then "critical thinking" just doesnt apply anymore. I use to be afraid to talk about it as most people would call me a quack (so would I, normally). Nothing like that ever happened to me before, nor since. What it "means" I couldnt tell you. But years later when I found out that many many people had similar experiences..and then eventually learned about the GCP, I came to believe there is "something" going on. The one idea I have toyed with about the pre-attack spike, is that at that time for sure many people knew about the planned attack (and if you believe some conspiracy theories, half the US government). Maybe that conscious knowledge was somehow tapped into. Anyway, I have no real idea. But I know what happened to me. I am wondering if what we call "critical thinking" is indeed itself bound by the way we look at reality. Stuff like GCP, if there is indeed a connection, is maybe tapping into a different plane or reality than our usual way of applying critical thought can grasp. Perhaps we are simply too limited to see the necessary approach to understanding all this I use to agonize over and even "hate" the fact I had that dream. But actually I am happy now for it as it convinces me that the potential for human consciousness is far beyond what you or I can imagine in our limited modes of analyses and prespectives. Folks can call me nuts all they want :) I actually feel rather content about the experience, even fortunate that I was able to see that .."insight" (not the correct word but..). And btw I do not think there is anything particularly remarkable or more "conscious" etc about me than the average person. But it just happened Quite right that GCP is crude...and what it is not showing (nor could it I think) is what the correlation they are claiming really "means". This is the part that needs to be investigated IMO. Not just my probability researchers, but a host of other disciplines. IMO it is more important pursuit than so many others that dominate what the world spends time and resources on ...and could actually be our salvation. My faith is that one day, maybe in a few hundred years or more (if we dont destroy ourselves) people will look at work like GCP as very very crude but at least was scratching the surface of something that is just beyond our current capabilities as humans to understand.

[@ravensheba]

Very interesting Joe. Can't wait until next Monday. Thumbs UP!

[@joescott]

+Kevin Seawell Thanks!

[@TheLastAbacus]

It's funny what he mentions at the end about being on shift and noticing strings of people coming in at exactly the same time, I noticed the same phenomenon where I worked, and it wasn't;t just at dinner rushes, but rather an hour before close, or 3 hours after open, random times, with groups of unconnected people.

[@randomthoughts3599]

I know this was 3 years ago but I am just now seeing it. This one blew me away

[@anonymousperson9784]

Yes Joe we are all connected

[@atelacastro5112]

Thanks for your channel Joe. I stumbled across your videos the other day and pretty much all your topics and ideas are things i question and think about all day. I normally don't comment much but i just had to tip my hat to you. Keep up the good work and all the topics and views about everything that i personally think and wonder about in this life, on this planet and everything else in between. Im a forklift operator and i work alot of 12hr night shifts and your channel will be put in my playlists that includes Joe Rogan podcast, Allen Watts videos, and other vlogs that views the way i see the world. It helps pass the times while at work. Sorry for me rambling on but anyways Thanks man for these great vids to view!!

[@joescott]

I appreciate that, thank you!

[@a45860]

That pattern is everywhere, awesome video thanks

[@tcayzer]

Just dug up this gem, or was suggested this gem. Now to find updated info on the global consciousness. Thank you

[@thomaswenzel1393]

Totally get it when you talked about the grocery store. I've worked foodservice for 15 years now and you notice all the time your selling a lot of a certain product. Like everyone in town wants spicy chicken all of a sudden, then the next day it's frosty like crazy. And what is it about cold weather that makes everyone want ice cream

[@joemcff.-1257]

I like to believe in consciousness as the water cycle, we all come from an ocean of consciousness and then fall back to it like drops, and our job is to tell that ocean what we learned as drops PD: sry for my english, i think....?

[@slaphappy7559]

Nice

[@Candjce]

A scientist myself, I become very frustrated by scicommers stifling the curiosity of their followers by just laughing off topics like these. You always inspire thought & curiosity without making extraordinary claims or using misinformation. I really appreciate that about your channel. ❤️

[@steviegwhizz345]

An Important Message For Humanity and Earth During these times of global pandemic, limited movements, economic uncertainty, and hardship in our ever changing world we need to remember that “this too shall pass”, but more than ever we need something to bring us all together in some way to bring about the changes we want to see in our world. How about a regular Global Meditation at 11.11 am and pm (11.00 until 11.22, 22 minutes meditation, 11 minutes either side of 11.11) on the 11th of every month to raise and maintain a positive and transformational energy and bring a shift of consciousness to all life on our planet. While many people are on lock down, the thought of raising your own emotional energy and sending out healing and loving energies to all of life would be a pleasant relief from the fear and trepidation of these times, and bring a greater sense of union to us all, helping many people through difficult alone times knowing that they are sharing this special moment with all their friends and family and beyond to our global family. Take a time to sit, and be still, and quiet, and share in something bigger. What to focus on... Love and gratitude for all we appreciate in our life and Love to all our friends and family where ever they may be. Love for all our past challenges that have made us go further than we thought we could, bringing inner strength. Love and healing energies to all those struggling souls whatever the challenge they face. Love and focused attention in the moment, Now. Sending and feeling the Love spreading from so many, and to so many, bringing us all together in a union of Love and a greater Oneness. Feel and visualise our planet, our home, in this incredible universe bathed in Love, and that energy healing our environment and wildlife and each other, cleaning our water and air, cleansing our land and oceans and taking us into a new paradigm of healthy coexistence. It sounds to me like a nice way to spend 22 minutes once a month. Or even everyday while we are at this critical juncture in our world. It would be a nice message to share with your family and friends to do this whenever they can (at 11) and to know they will be joining many others at that very same special time. And remember to share that love energy in Action every time, pass it forward in the real world through physical action in any form, even a smile can lift someones’ day, with Love for others and our shared home. Our galactically tiny, beautiful, magical orb travelling through space and time, alive, living, breathing with her own natural rhythms and energies among the cosmos, Our mother Earth, Gaia, She needs our attention and we need hers now too as we collectively come to realise "We are all One" and interconnected and interdependent in so many ways. We can make this leap forward now in our evolution, it has happened many times before in our past with the evolution of speech and art etc. We are now at a time of huge change in our world and we are due a leap forward into a new consciousness, based on the estimated timings of previous leaps and global population numbers and the movement of people and changes within cultures. It only takes a few good people to change the world, but we are many, so many that we could easily get this information out to Millions, if not Billions of people of during this crisis. The potential of this could change our world in next to no time at all. Please Share this message. It has no copyright. It has no owner. It is free. Please Share it however and where ever you like. In every language and country, turn it into a song, a poem, a community event, a meme, art, whatever your’ medium. Maybe a Hashtag? #Meditation11.11 whatever, Post it on your page; share it on your website or in your shop window or on the message board at work and with friends and family. The time is now; help bring these changes into the world, into Our world, into Your world and your life. Why not give it a try? It’s Free. If you're a bit sceptical have a look at "The Global Consciousness Project" for some very interesting scientific global research. Love, Emotion, Attention, Visualisation and Action We are many and we are One. Love and Peace fellow human.

[@quentinfaison2826]

Love the videos joe! Keep them coming!

[@paulthepainter2366]

This is the most thought provoking video I've seen

[@timothyupham1475]

I worked at a food court in a mall when I was younger. We had periods were no one was in line to order and then... boom, a large number of customers would show up at the same time. This happened over and over daily. Like, somehow, everyone got hungry at the same time in rushes. I thought the same things you did about it. It is hard to ignore when you notice it happening.

[@jessetreadway5249]

I needed to see this. I always knew... This is going to change everything.

[@3385holto]

this guy is awesome.please please please keep making these videos as they are so enlightening

[@phoenix78240]

I've had my moment when I concentrate hard enough I can communicate with the people I have a strong relationship with. It was spooky. I haven't been able to repeat it again.

[@renaehall4284]

Awesome video joe, if you haven't heard of "Neural Physics" its worth looking up as it ties in with this subject :). Great video as always

[@QuantumComputerWorld]

Super good video Joe! I love the side humor/jokes 🖒

[@jaiprakashchauhan4186]

Thanks for letting me know this... It has added a perspective..

[@write4meaus]

Dude...your videos rock. Keep it up! Even try the good old topics/style that the original Vsauce used to have. You are great! Keep it up! Fan from Sydney.

[@JinchurikiDemon]

This video just blew my mind, I'm not sure what to think about everything now. It's a lot to take in and I have so many questions..

[@davidpro7644]

My new Fav Channel! Thanks :)

[@aelizondo189]

Dude! I love this channel! Keep going Joe! Yu da man!

[@l.c.cooper9714]

I’ve always been fascinated by global consciousness, especially after September 11. I’ll be looking for that app. You are hilarious, Joe! Thanks for another great video.

[@arianna2243]

Thank you for covering this topic!! This experiment came up in a Psych. class years ago, and I've wanted to reference it recently, but Google wasn't in my Psych class! I know I'm 4 years late to this party, but i wonder if you covered "The Hidden Messages in Water"?

[@TheMJT4]

So refreshing to see actual thought-provoking content. Top 10 lists are way too common and get old fast. Thumbs up Joe.

[@joescott]

+TheMJT4 Thanks! It's kinda sad, I do list videos every once in a while and they always perform well. But I try not to do them very often. You're right, it gets formulaic.

[@jensstegeby6141]

Hey, Out a link to the video about the consciousness app in the description! I'll go give it now on my own, but I bet others will want to get to it from this video but won't find it in the suggested videos. Great show btw!

[@minimumesse5667]

Nice! This is well written on a really interesting topic. Looking forward to next week!

[@joescott]

+Minimum esse Thanks!

[@pauldunton1230]

I remember waking up at 6am panicked and feeling something was really wrong...I'll never forget it...

[@mcfluffly8579]

Dude ok the three hours before 8:45, now I’m psyched out

[@KeithStrang]

I worked at a hardware store as a kid and noticed the same group sync anomaly. Large groups would all come in at the same time, despite hours of the day with an empty store. These surges never tied to weather or time of day. It seemed completely random. Because there was so much time when no one was at the store, I spent a lot of brain cycles trying to correlate the group sync anomaly. It’s been background processing in my brain for 15 years, and I still don’t have a working theory.

[@sk8shred993]

Dude I love your channel. Dont ever change

[@dawnrinkydinkfinds5337]

PLEASE do another video on this as we are one year into the covid crisis?!?! I bet ya that our collective consciousness has affected that experiment during this past year. I’d love a new video on this topic!!

[@samuelluftensteiner68]

You just HAVE to make a video about remote viewing now that you have touched on that topic, it fits everything you just said in topic and mind-bending quality...

[@Jack94580]

well done Joe

[@jedisgarage4775]

PLEASE make part 2!!!!

[@silversonic1]

The retail rush phenomenon(for lack of a better term) is something a lot of people have experienced. As a cart pusher, if there were 2 people and one went to break, customers would almost instantly start piling in. And then there are the times it's triggered by someone commenting on the pace of the customers. Sure enough, it would be like the water pulling away from the beach before a tidal wave. I make it a point to warn people that are new to retail about this. I also warn people that food stamp and social security days are days where they don't want to be shopping after 10am. I don't know what it is about our town, but it's like clockwork that people will start really coming in around 10am. I will say that humans are creatures of habit. If people are raised to follow certain habits, it will follow them through life without a second thought. There are WAY too many factors and variables to track easily, but the phenomenon is worth the research.

[@mikeprice7888]

On the topic of global consciousness, people may be interested and learning of sir Rodger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff's work with microtubules and Quantum fluctuations and how they may relate to consciousness.

[@vitalyg149]

Joe, great channel and great content! Looking forward to new videos! One suggestion for the background, the items on the shelf are cool, but the shelf is ugly. I recommend a cooler shelf :-) I'm sure all this will come together with time. I'm going to share this with others... because the content is great!

[@vitalyg149]

Joe Scott Miscreant: a person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law. No laws were broken, yet!

[@joescott]

+Vitaly Gurevich Okay, fine... HOOLIGAN!!!

[@randelbrooks]

Something like this maybe how prayer works. I’ll leave that with you.

[@sammcdonald4805]

This channel is fantastic. Great work man! Why you don't have more subscribers is beyond me.

[@joescott]

+Sam McDonald Hehe... Thanks Sam. It's growing really fast. I just hit 2000 subs in January and I'm on track to get to 10k in a month or so. Maybe soon people won't be asking this anymore. :)

[@sammcdonald4805]

Great to hear Joe because you really deserve it bud. Keep up the good work!

[@thedonnybrookghost8394]

Legend joe keep up the great work mate g’day from Australia

[@CarecaRetrogamer]

Hey, hello from Brazil! Great videos, man... gotta luv the stuff u post... When u said "get more heads" I was like ROFL and then u said "get more tails" omg... I nearly flipped off my chair laughing... XD Hilarious AND educational... way to go, man... I RARELY subscribe to a channel, but I had to subscribe to yours! Keep up the good (and funny) work!

[@dagansmith5354]

my mom tells a story of when I was 3 years old, we where at my grandparents. she, grandma and grandpa went to visit someone down the street and left me with dad who fell asleep and I went for a walk on the road, I don't know why maybe looking for her. she tells it that all of a sudden she jumped up from her chain and shouted where is Dagan, on she way back to the house she left me in she found me at the end of the street just about to walk out onto a much bigger busier street. I am 40 years old now and this event still bothers her, she still tells it the same and cant explain why or how it happened. just thought I would share this.

[@trying2adult]

What sort of random number generator was used? It's well known in computer science that random numbers are hard (if not impossible) to make.

[@Szobiz]

was thinking the same. the true random number generator i have ever seem took the wind into account.

[@audriclemmons4479]

Probably true randomness, measuring radioactive decay will do that.

[@Paul.Gallant]

That's why it's called a quasy random number generator...

[@ClaudiaDeyulia]

Your videos are awesome! Love ya Joe!

[@rontocknell3592]

I want to relate an incident which did raise questions about the power of intention. It doesn't prove anything but it does raise an interesting question. I used to make walking sticks and specifically chose sticks that had become naturally twisted by wild honeysuckle. However, I began to feel a bit of a vandal hacking off tree limbs so I stopped. A friend who was something of a "tree-hugger" suggested I "ask the trees" (a suggestion I immediately dismissed, not being fluent in Tree). But it did occur to me that maybe there was a way in which it could be a transaction that benefits the tree. As my preferred kind of branches always came from trees that were rather choked with honeysuckle, I could clear all the honeysuckle from the tree in return for my chosen branch. With that plan in mind, I set off for the woods with my dog, Fudge. She was a chocolate Labrador and I would describe her as generally obliging rather than obedient. Happy to oblige as long as it doesn't conflict with her own agenda... that sort of thing. I was expecting to collect no more than one or two sticks, given that I'd have to allow the time it takes to clear all the honeysuckle from the trees. It usually takes a long time just to find the right sticks as they're comparitively rare. As soo as we reached the woodland path, Fudge ran off into the undergrowth and wouldn't come when I called her. I could see her just sitting and staring at me but she wouldn't budge. So I tramped in after her to see what she was so interested in. As I approached, she ran off again and waited for me to catch up. She kept this up until she came to rest by a hazel tree pretty much smothered with honeysuckle. There were several branches I could have used but the deal my mind had settled on was one tree cleared for one branch. So I cleared the tree and selected the best branch. As soon as I had finished, Fudge ran off again and followed the same routine of running to the limit of my line of sight and waiting for me to catch up... until she came to rest at another tree tangled in honeysuckle. In all, she repeated this routine five times and each time led me to a tree that was covered in honeysuckle and, from each, I was able to harvest a nice twisted branch. I had collected the same number of good sticks I would normally have expected to collect in the same amount of time I would normally have taken to collect them. The time I would normally have spent looking for suitable trees was spent clearing the trees I had found. Sadly, I was unable to repeat this because Fudge's health was declining and the hill was too much of a challenge for her. Here are the questions I was left with: >Could my intention to clear trees have emitted a signal that trees could detect? >Could the trees have emitted a signal that Fudge could detect? We know that trees do emit signals to each other. That fact has already been established. We also know that animals emit chemical signals that convey information to other animals. So it is not beyond the realm of possibility that we convey far more information than we realise in our magnetic field or body odour or whatever. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that a dog (far more versed in detecting and interpreting signals than humans) could detect the 'help-needed-here' signals that may have been emitted by the trees. It's something to ponder.

[@Aosgood94]

I remember watching 9/11 in school because the teacher didn't listen to an announcement to keep the TV's off. Now it's something kids learn about in history books.

[@chrisleblanc5042]

I remember my high-school pulled out TVs into the atrium and we were all just standing there

[@Hockeycanada87]

How doesn't this Channel have a million subs. This guys quality is on point

[@joescott]

I appreciate that! :)

[@eclat4641]

2:36 the song “winner” starts playing 😂

[@jen_wren_x]

Yip 💫 #WeAreOne 🌟🌍 Love & Gratitude from Scotland ❣️

[@commonpike]

Funny you mention working in the store. I did the same when i was young and noticed the same. I concluded it was probably that the distribution of chance is, by nature, not equal. No global conscienceness needed.

[@nerusonsanzenin2786]

Interesting that bring up the grocery store rushes. I work at a grocery store too and have noticed that items that never really sale are hot for about 2 to 3 hours. It's crazy, we go a whole year without selling it and all of a sudden everyone goes crazy. If it were like 4 people I would say it's coincidence... but 17 sales in that short amount of time is crazy(I count these things now as I am aware of them).

[@Acin75]

Within this project there were interesting cross-overs to a theory called global-scaling that described the world as a harmonious oscillation in a hyperbolic scale-invariant and fractal "rhythm".

[@ericgentzke4635]

I’m a truck driver and most nights I don’t see much of anything at night no wrecks or anything but I’ll see one wreck and as I go down the road it will be like plenty more and just a general increase in rushy driving and near mistakes

[@rynz_2893]

I like to think consciousness is several things/systems all working together and because of this "syncing" between systems, it just inherently creates consciousness as a side effect. I think being self aware is just a side effect of a complicated system reacting to it's environment.

[@hayden5154]

we need to be talking about this right. now.

[@SEJay-gj2cv]

Why? Didn't you hear the WOO WOO ALARM? /s smh...

[@ianjones907]

Another enlightened video! I once, years ago, said to a group of friends that perhaps consciousness is the universe's way of admiring itself. I was probably stoned.

[@peisertdesign]

mind BLOWN!

[@yellowgut]

Joe the pre spike is somewhat explained by the reed in the stream. As water flows past the reed the ripple in the water bulges before the reed. Highly emotional moments in the flow of consciousness/time are preceded by the first ripples of the impending event!

[@joescott]

+yellowgut Interesting metaphor. :)

[@sentinelmoonfang]

So, similar to Joe's story about the rushes at that store: I work at an escape room. There's some weird, and statistically verifiable stuff that goes on. We'll have people make some strange new mistake we've never seen before in 2+ years of operation (Interpreting a hint wrong or screwing up an easy puzzle in a specific way)... then in the following weeks, a dozen or so teams will make that same mistake... before it just stops and teams normalize. I always thought it was confirmation bias, and it had happened before, but we forgot about it until a few teams did it in a row, making us notice a trend, or that subtle variation in the setup of the room primed people to make those mistakes in some strange, subconscious way... But now I'm not entirely sure. We keep an immensely detailed set of records, so the trends are quite visible when looking back over them.

[@jstills4]

Brilliant.

[@TealCheetah]

I was in 6th grade when 9/11 happened. The teachers rolled tv's into 2 of the classrooms and basically all of the school piled into those two rooms.

[@stonerjimjim]

Great video

[@maliluha]

Hey Joe! Really love your videos! Could you make an episode on Noosphere? It seems like it's a bit of a similar topic

[@dylanimalCS]

You remind me of Steve Carrel in the office sometimes. Great video! Do you think this could be a link to the simulation hypothesis?

[@sammywhammy8295]

I love this idea

[@darkhaider14]

I was talking to my fiancee about this yesterday. As a Philosopher I spend a lot of time in the realm of Abstract. I think reality has dimensions. And as someone who spends more time in Abstract than Physical, I often feel a sense of disconnect. After all, of we consider people like Buddha...have many not spoken of disconnecting from the physical and connecting to a universal intellogence ? Religions have spoken about God being All Knowing and All Wise. So clearly, there is something there and on some level we know it is there. What remains to be ascertained os is...what exactly is it that we are dealing with ?

[@JamesTTierce]

Do you make money as a philosopher?

[@psyekl]

very cool stuff.

[@Zip_Oliver12]

It's the same thing that tells you someones looking at you, from behind. You turn around and tada someones looking at you. Every brain has a transmitter that is on a frequency we have not discovered yet. From what I know of Alien encounters. They say they don't talk, yet can operate and work as a team. If there is ANY truth at all to these stories It tells us that once you reach a certain level of intelligence your brain basically turns into its own cell phone.

[@michaelalmodovar4332]

Same thing happens at work all the time. I work in food service. Will get these rushes out of nowhere. Seems like groups of people that don’t even know each other all decide to pull into the same parking lot at the same time.

[@filipcza]

By the way, Scott you said that you were in that store and saw that all the people came in waves. I have similar experience when I was little and was with my dad in his store where he sold musical instruments. We always wondered why on earth there was this phenomenon where there would be no people in the store for an hour and suddenly the place was packed with people and minutes later it was all empty again. This happened so often that we gave a name to this phenomenon.. it was in Finnish so it doesn't translate very well but closest I can translate it is something like "The Serial Law", meaning that the people came in "series", if you know what that tries to mean.